CVE-2021-36744: Trend Micro Maximum Security 2019

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Trend Micro Security (Consumer) 2021 and 2020 are vulnerable to a directory junction vulnerability which could allow an attacker to exploit the system to escalate privileges and create a denial of service.

Affected products

• Trend Micro Maximum Security 2019: version 15.0 only
• Trend Micro Maximum Security 2020: version 16.0 only
• Trend Micro Maximum Security 2021: version 17.0 only; version 17.2 only
• Trend Micro Security For Best Buy: version 2021 only

Published 2021-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.